{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/scott-democrats-irs-snooping-plan-hurts-americans-living-paycheck-to-paycheck/", "Scott: Democrats\u2019 IRS Snooping Plan Hurts Americans Living Paycheck-to-Paycheck", "2021-10-19", "2021", "2021-10", "Republican", "Senate", "SC", "Tim Scott", "S001184", "www.scott.senate.gov", "timscott", "https://www.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/jsf/jet-engine:press-list", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) spoke out against the Democrats\u2019 plans to give the IRS access to the bank information of virtually every American during a Senate Banking Committee hearing and a Senate GOP press conference.\n\nClick to watch Senator Scott\u2019s questions at the hearing\n\nOn the IRS investigating every American\u2019s accounts \u2026 \u201cIt would be impossible for me not to ask a question about the current proposals coming out of the administration as it relates to the ability to investigate and/or have access to every transaction in every American\u2019s banking accounts or financial accounts based on simply $600 of flow coming through. I know that some proposals have $600; others have $10,000. The challenge is, whether it\u2019s $600 or $10,000, it captures basically the same number of accounts.\u201d\n\nOn enlarging big government \u2026 \u201cIf you\u2019re looking for tax cheats, that is a terrible way of figuring it out. But if you are, in fact, looking at a big-government proposal to have the ability to investigate every single transaction of a financial institution of your account, my account, and their accounts\u2026 well, this might be a good direction to go in.\u201d\n\nOn burdening working-class Americans \u2026 \u201cIf you\u2019re looking to simply find the tax cheats of the top one percent or two percent of Americans, you don\u2019t need a threshold of $600. You don\u2019t need a threshold of $10,000. Frankly, you don\u2019t even need a threshold of $100,000 dollars. What this threshold of $600 or $10,000 does is it captures all the information, all the transactions of everyday Americans, not the rich ones, but the ones working paycheck-to-paycheck. \u2026 That\u2019s not about millionaires and billionaires. That is an actual additional burden on working-class Americans.\u201d\n\nClick to watch Senator Scott\u2019s remarks at the press conference\n\nOn the results of the Democrats\u2019 proposal \u2026 \u201cI think about the fact that there are seven million Americans who are unbanked and may be a little suspicious of the government. This proposal will keep those good Americans from being able to engage and get involved in the financial systems of our country. I can\u2019t think of anything more wrong-directed than this proposal. \u2026 For those Americans who are concerned that, somehow, the government is too big, too onerous, too burdensome, this only adds more fuel to that fire.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:24:51Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/scott-democrats-irs-snooping-plan-hurts-americans-living-paycheck-to-paycheck/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.452293410897255, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}